Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's 165-year history, it has had just seven women members.* Last week an eighth name was added to the list. To fill the vacancy created by the death of Republican Dwight Palmer Griswold, Nebraska's Governor Robert B. Crosby appointed Mrs. Eva Bowring (rhymes with now ring), owner and operator of an 8,000-acre cattle ranch at Merriman, 315 miles northwest of Omaha...
Rossano weakened badly in the eighth, and Navy added its last four runs, before sophomore reliever Ned Felton could stop the blast...
...eighth consecutive fiscal year, booming Canada wound up with a budget surplus. The 1954-55 budget, presented to Parliament last week, reported a $10 million surplus from last year. That was the smallest since 1946, too small to permit any income-tax cuts, but still big enough to keep Canada in the select group of countries currently operating in the black...
...from 53 colleges came to try it out in the National Collegiate Swimming Championships. In a splashy show, the Syracuse pool lived up to its buildup, and Ohio State, headed by its top trio from Hawaii, managed to swamp the opposition (including Yale's defending champions) for the eighth time in twelve years...
What is needed is not only an eighth House but a ninth House to take care of the additional 1,000 students added since President Lowell and Harkness initiated the Plan...